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From: suntan!sunburn!mcdphx!zztop!xroads!beagle!Jim.Chandler@ucsd.edu
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Subject: 386i
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Date: 16 Nov 90 12:05:00 GMT
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I am looking to purchase a Sun workstation for personal use.  I am looking
at either a Sun 2, Sun 3 or a 386i.  What do people who have used these
systems think.  Can the 386i use the same cards that PCs do, ie. does it
have the ISA bus.  What is SunOS 4.0.1 like?  BSD 4.[23] or Sys V?  Could
I compile and run X11R4 easily?  How hard is it to add an ethernet card to
network it to my 386 box running ESIX Rev. D?  I am mainly interested in
the 386i but would appreciate pro and cons of it and the other sun models.
Thanks

Jim Chandler
asuvax!xroads!beagle!chandler
chandler@beagle.uucp